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Full Idea
The procedure for generating Gettier cases involves 'double luck': an instance of good luck cancels out an instance of bad luck.
Gist of Idea
Gettier cases arise when good luck cancels out bad luck
Source
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (Virtues of the Mind [1996], III 3.2)
Book Ref
Zagzebski,Linda: 'Virtues of the Mind' [CUP 1996], p.295
A Reaction
You can end up with the right answer in arithmetic if you make two mistakes rather than one. I'm picturing a life of one blundering error after another, which to an outsider seems to be going serenely well.
| 6444 | True belief about the time is not knowledge if I luckily observe a stopped clock at the right moment [Russell] |
| 5430 | A true belief is not knowledge if it is reached by bad reasoning [Russell] |
| 5429 | True belief is not knowledge when it is deduced from false belief [Russell] |
| 8886 | Being a true justified belief is not a sufficient condition for knowledge [Gettier] |
| 20225 | For internalists Gettier situations are where internally it is fine, but there is an external mishap [Zagzebski] |
| 20226 | Gettier problems are always possible if justification and truth are not closely linked [Zagzebski] |
| 20228 | We avoid the Gettier problem if the support for the belief entails its truth [Zagzebski] |
| 20227 | Gettier cases arise when good luck cancels out bad luck [Zagzebski] |
| 19004 | Gettier says you don't know if you are confused about how it is true [Yablo] |
| 19699 | A Gettier case is a belief which is true, and its fallible justification involves some luck [Hetherington] |
| 19728 | Gettier and lottery cases seem to involve luck, meaning bad connection of beliefs to facts [Black,T] |
| 19266 | In a disjunctive case, the justification comes from one side, and the truth from the other [Vaidya] |
| 19260 | Gettier deductive justifications split the justification from the truthmaker [Vaidya] |